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Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler?



 
 
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Old January 29th 10, 06:38 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Robert Myers
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Default Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler?

On Jan 29, 9:04*am, Sebastian Kaliszewski
wrote:

IE6 is not mission critical for Google for one damn simple reason that
there are many other browsers google apps run on (and run even better,
or even run at all).

Even a total and permanent meltdown of IE6 (very, very improbable event,
due to large set of obvious facts you apparently can't grasp) is not an
end to a google, yahoo, even microsoft.com and all the other high
profile web pages/portals. For a simple reason that there are things
like IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, and lots of others.


As I said to Prof. Redelmeier, there is little point in continuing a
discussion if there is no common basis for understanding, and your
comments on this issue adequately illustrate the chasm between us.

So far as I know, the only thing about IE6 that matters to Google is
that its applications have to run correctly on it, because many
enterprise users still use IE6. So long as important users are
employing IE6, it doesn't matter what other browsers are available,
because Google has to test its applications on IE6.

The damage to Google was that user accounts were compromised, so that
users know that someone who wants to badly enough can get to user
data... meaning that companies and individuals will have to worry
about what kind of data will be entrusted to Google. That's a killer.

The Google example shows why it doesn't matter whether an application
itself is used in a way that you would identify as mission-critical.

Applications unwittingly provide pathways for attack. Even
applications that are not connected to the internet can become useful
once a system has been penetrated, which could happen through an
application so banal as Adobe Reader.

That the Internet could be thrown into unfixable chaos by a malicious
attack seems not at all improbable to me.

I'm not going to pursue this discussion further with you, as there is
no point.

Robert.
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Old February 1st 10, 01:20 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Sebastian Kaliszewski[_5_]
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Default Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler?

Robert Myers wrote:
IE6 is not mission critical for Google for one damn simple reason that
there are many other browsers google apps run on (and run even better,
or even run at all).

Even a total and permanent meltdown of IE6 (very, very improbable event,
due to large set of obvious facts you apparently can't grasp) is not an
end to a google, yahoo, even microsoft.com and all the other high
profile web pages/portals. For a simple reason that there are things
like IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, and lots of others.


As I said to Prof. Redelmeier, there is little point in continuing a
discussion if there is no common basis for understanding, and your
comments on this issue adequately illustrate the chasm between us.


They demonstrate the chasm between you and reality.

[...]
The Google example shows why it doesn't matter whether an application
itself is used in a way that you would identify as mission-critical.


You even do not uderstand what mission-critcal means. Nope, IE6 is not
mission critical for Google in any generally accepted meaning of the
"mission critical".

That the Internet could be thrown into unfixable chaos by a malicious
attack seems not at all improbable to me.


Im affaraid you have completely skewed meaining behind the name Internet.

I'm not going to pursue this discussion further with you, as there is
no point.


Oh, yet you start two more compelety off-topic threads to continue that
discussion.


\SK

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